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I haven’t drawn Vladimir Putin in a very long time. He’s easy enough. He’s got that pouty mouth and deep-set eyes. He’s much easier to draw than Mikhail Gorbachev. Gorby looked like an average western businessman. The only thing that set him apart was he had that big “port wine stain” birthmark on his head which I turned into a hammer and sickle, the emblem at the time of communist Soviet Russia. The rest of the recent Russian leaders were fairly easy to draw, except for Dmitry Medvedev who wasn’t really a leader anyway. He was just keeping the seat warm for Putin. Boris Yeltzin was fun and so was Nikita Kruschev but nobody beats Joseph...

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I haven’t drawn Vladimir Putin in a very long time. He’s easy enough. He’s got that pouty mouth and deep-set eyes. He’s much easier to draw than Mikhail Gorbachev. Gorby looked like an average western businessman. The only thing that set him apart was...

For a weakened but still ambitious President Obama, the biggest foreign-policy opportunity and danger of his presidency rolls into New York next week with the arrival of Iranian leader Hassan Rouhani.
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Iran's former first vice president has been taken to jail to serve his prison term for corruption, the official IRNA news agency reported Sunday. Mohammad Reza Rahimi, a top aide to former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was convicted by Iran's supreme...

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"Rosewater" is the first film directed by Jon Stewart, best known as host of "The Daily Show." Stewart's own screenplay adapts journalist Maziar Bahari's memoir "Then They Came for Me: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and...

UNITED NATIONS — Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will meet Thursday with Secretary of State John Kerry and representative of five other world powers, in what will be the highest-level face-to-face meeting between diplomats from Tehran and...

TEHRAN — Iran's supreme leader on Saturday publicly endorsed President Hassan Rouhani's efforts to reconcile with archenemy Washington, but indicated his displeasure with some events during Rouhani's high-profile visit late last month to the United...

Iran executed two alleged government opponents Thursday, sentenced nine others to death as "enemies of God" and warned of more public trials of opposition supporters in an apparent attempt to intimidate a widespread protest movement...

Venezuela's leftist leader made news last week by threatening to expel any visiting foreigner who said anything bad about him. At the risk of being banned from the country, Perspective offers a look at one of the United States' greatest irritants:
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